Stuff!

My Lara Croft movie came in today!  Yay!  I feel completed!

I don't know why we have school tomorrow.  It's so pointless for us (besides the play!  That's not pointless!).  All we do is watch a movie and go to the awards ceremony.  Boring much... I'm going to go see the play in the evening again anyway, so it isn't so useful even in that way.

Sorry my last two posts have been basically make-up work for ASB Lit people.  This week's been really busy for me!

For those who missed ASB Literature today -

We got writer biographies from Clink, and I handed out "Pygmalion" packets to follow up on the allusion in the reading.  What you'll REALLY want to catch up on though is the terminology for the year.  There'll be a quiz over all the terms on Tuesday, however you won't be tested over "Pygmalion" when you get the story.  You just need understand how it relates to "The Birthmark".

Here are all of the vocab and their definitions (they'll look exactly like this on the test, so please, please, please print this out and put it with your binder!) -

~ Prose Fiction - Imaginary writing that is not poetry

~ Prose Non-Fiction - Factual writing that is not poetry

~ Iambic Pentameter - Five-beat poetic line

~ Concrete Poetry - Poems written as a pattern that uses a physical arrangement of words to add meaning and effect

~ Free Verse - Without a fixed metrical pattern, usually having unrhymed lines of varying length

~ Biography - Account of somebody's life

~ Autobiography - Account of somebody's life written by that person

~ Conflict - Internal or external opposition

~ Realism - Lifelike representation of people and the world

~ Romanticism - Style using fantasy to bring out the harsh realities of life

~ Naturalism - Style advocating a factual or realistic description of life, including its less pleasant aspects

~ Fatalism - Style of all things and events as inevitable

~ Escapism - Style indulging in fantasies to escape reality

~ Genre - Category of artistic works

~ Romance - Brief and intense love accompanied by the spirit of adventure

~ Personification - A non-human object acting in a human manner

~ Parody - Amusing imitation

~ Parable - Moral or religious story

~ Paradox - Something seemingly absurd or contradictory, but may be true

~ Alliteration - Use of similar consonants at the beginning of a series of words

~ Irony - Humor based on opposites (dramatic, situational, and verbal)

~ Language Usage - Regional dialects by geographical location

~ Simile - Figurative language drawing a comparison between two unlike things (like, as)

~ Metaphor - Making a comparison not meant to be taken literally

~ Oxymoron - Expression with contradictory words

~ Allusion - Indirect reference

~ Narration - Telling a story

~ First Person - Pronouns referring to the speaker or writer

~ Omniscent - Knowledge of all things

~ Objective - Based on fact

~ Assonance - Similarity of two or more vowel sounds

~ Onomatopoeia - Words formed to imitate a sound

~ Consonance - Similarity of end consonants

~ Masculine Rhyme - Rhyming, monosyllabic words or the final syllables of polysyllabic words

~ Feminine Rhyme - Rhyming that matches two or more syllables

~ Approximate Rhyme - Rhymes that are close, but not exact

~ Metonymy - Use of a word for a concept

~ Internal Rhyme - Rhymes within a single line

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